9 a.m.- 1A with Joshua Johnson The weekly roundup. This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence. After it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data consulting firm with ties to the Trump campaign, had access to a trove of Facebook user data, Zuckerberg told CNN, “this was a major breach of trust and I’m really sorry that this happened. We have a basic responsibility to protect people’s data, and if we can’t do that, then we don’t deserve to have the opportunity to serve people.”

In Texas, the man suspected of sending a series of package bombs in the Austin area is dead. Thousands of students are in Washington to march against gun violence. And a parody book about the vice president’s pet rabbit having a gay romance is at the top of the charts. (Listen)

1 p.m. – Science Friday Fungi, nematodes, bacteria — they all make up the human microbiome once you die. Ira Flatow looks at the microbes that take over after death and how they might be used as a forensic tool. And Russian cyber groups have proven they can hack their way into U.S power stations. Should we pull the power plants off the Internet?

2 p.m. – BBC NewsHour An Islamist gunman is shot dead by French police after taking hostages in a supermarket. What will new President Trump’s National Security Advisor be whispering in his boss’s ear? And music to mark Iceland’s century.

3 p.m. – All Things Considered The week in politics; Europe taxes tech; and the 1963 children’s marchers talk about this weekend’s gun march.

6:30 p.m. – Marketplace The Environmental Protection Agency is changing the way it vets the science behind regulations, and critics say this is more about slowing regulations than improving it.

7 p.m. – The World A contrast of cultures changes some minds in the film Maineland. A new film follows high school students from China as they study in the United States. Ambitious teens from Chinese megacities experience life in Fryeburg, Maine — population 3,500.

8 p.m. – Fresh Air Nashville singer-songwriter Margot Price. Her latest album is All American Made. Rolling Stone called it “one of the most political country records in years.” It includes her hit songs Weakness, and A Little Pain. (Rebroadcast)

About the blogger

Bob Collins has been with Minnesota Public Radio since 1992, emigrating to Minnesota from Massachusetts. He was senior editor of news in the ’90s, ran MPR’s political unit, created the MPR News regional website, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day laments that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.

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